Vol. 12 (November), University of Judaism News, 1961

Page 4 FALL SEMESTER OFFERS LARGEST, FINEST PROGRAM EVER
TOURING
THEATRE GROUP
WILL SERVE
COMMUNITY
A touring theatre group to
service the Los Angeles Jewish
community is one part "of the
exciting fa.ll program" of the
Drama and Dance Department of
the University of Judaism, it
was disclosed by Benjamin Ze-mach,
department director.
TED POST
TO TEACH
AT U OF J
Ted Post, award-winning
television and theatre director,
returned to the University of
Judaism this fall to teach
courses in Acting and Direct-ing
for Television and Films.
The courses are given every
Monday from
8:30 to 10
p.m.
Post, who
Is returning
to the Uni-v
e r s i ty of
Judaism as a
result of in-creased
in-terest
in his
courses, also teaches at UCLA.
Earlier this year, a national
board of top-ranking TV critics
voted Post the Limelight Award
for best direction in the pro-duction
of "Incident at Dragoon
Crossing" in the Rawhide ser-ies.
The Screen Directors Guild
has nominated Post as one of
the nation's five ranking direc-tors
for three years running.
Zemach, a pioneer in the
famed Habima Theatre, said
that "new talents and dis-tinguished
veterans will pool
their resources for a very rich
and varied program" in the fall
semester classes.
Classes and workshops are
going on at the University every
weekday evening with the ex-ception
of Friday. On Mondays,
from 8:30 to 10 p.m., TedPost,
award-winning film and TV
director teaches his popular
course on Acting and Directing
for Films and Television.
Other evenings find classes
in dance and drama, ranging
from beginners through inter-mediate
and advanced, taught by
such noted individuals as Saida
Gerrard, who heads her own
touring dance company, Eliza-beth
Lynn Zemach and Zemach
himself.
As for the touring theature
group, Zemach said this is be-ing
formed "to meet long-standing
requests from Jewish
community centers and many
organizations.."The group will
be composed both of students
in the Drama Workshop and
established performers from
stage, screen and television.
Dramatic moment from "The Apollo of Bellac" by Jean
Giraudox is depicted at last spring's Drama Workshop pre-sented
by the Fine Arts Department of the University of Judaism,
under the direction of Benjamin Zemach. Scene above is played
by, left to right, Michael Ferris, Robert Argo and Didi Ramati.
STRAUSS COLLECTION OF JEWISH ART ON
VIEW AT UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM
The Samuel Strauss collec-tion
of 900 years of Jewish art
objects, now on loan to the Uni-versity
of Judaism, will con-tinue
to be on exhibit for public
viewing Sundays through Fri-days
of each week, from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to
9 p.m.
Included in the priceless col-lection
are such items as a
medieval Torah pointer, a 14th
Century bronze Sabbath lamp,
a beautifully ornamented and
inscribed 18th Century mar-riage
parchment and other
objects.
Strauss, now a resident of
Los Angeles, began tracking
and collecting these items
through Europe in 1918 as a
young man in Germany. Fortun-ately,
by the time the Nazis
took over, the collection was
housed in England.
Sent to Buchenwald Concen-tration
Camp in 1938, Strauss
managed to get out in 1939 and
ultimately, to make his way to
the United States where the col-lection
followed him.
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"UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM MEANS MUCH TO ME". .WARREN
United States Chief Justice Earl Warren is told of campaign
to launch University of Judaism's Earl Warren Institute of
Ethics and Human Relations, toward which group of community
leaders made instant pledge of $263,000. Left to right are
Julius Fligelman, chairman of the university's board of over-seers;
Dr. Simon Greenberg, university president; Warren;
Benjamin Swig and Victor M. Charter.
UNIVERSITY EXPANDS FACILITIES,
SERVICES, COURSES FOR 1961-62
The University of Judaism,
with the opening of fall semes-ter
classes on Oct . 4, em-barked
on the largest and most
diversified program in its 14-
year history, Lewis Pennish,
chairman of the Board of Gover-nors,
revealed.
Included in its goals are the
establishment of the Earl
SHUB
ON
RADIO
SUNDAYS
Due to the increased popu-larity
of his broadcasts, the
timespot for the K.P.F.K.-FM
(90.7) commentaries of Louis
Shub, Director of the Library
of the University of Judaism,
will take place every other Sun-
Continued on Page 2
Warren Institute in Ethics and
Human Relations, the school of
Fine Arts, television and radio
educational programs, weekly
public debates series with
nationally prominent partici-pants,
enlarged extension pro-grams
in Jewish community
centers and other institutions,
additional courses at the Uni-versity
Institute, as well as full
facilities at the university's
Graduate School and Teachers
Institute.
Distinguished scholars' will
continue to teach, with addition-al
instructors joining the
faculty. In the Fine Arts, for
example, such noted profes-sionals
as award-winning TV
director Ted Post, noted com-poser,
Max Helfman, and dis-tinguished
mosaicist Joseph L.
Young, have joined with Ben-jamin
Zemach to provide a
fully rounded program.
In the University Institute,
courses including Hebrew, Mo-
Continued on Page 2
"Your University of Judaism . . . means much to me ... I pray
that, in the years to come, its influence may be felt beyond the
borders of this city and this state . . . that it may grow to be a
great national center of ethical and moral insight ... to an un-derstanding
of inter-independence and the joint responsibility
of all men and women for the fate, the development, the prosperity
and the spiritual growth of one another as an indispensable con-dition
for true freedom and independence in the world of today."
So declared United States Chief Justice, Earl Warren, at the
historic Independence Day Dinner of the University of Judaism.
The University of Judaism is
now establishing the Earl War-ren
Institute of Ethics and Hu-man
Relations as a result of the
instantaneous response of
twenty-two community leaders
who pledged over a quarter-of-a-
million dollars at a luncheon
prior to the July 4 Dinner in
honor of the Chief Justice. The
money was originally sub-scribed
towards an Earl Warren
Chair in Law and Ethics.
Over-subscription of the
$250,000 goal was announcedby
Benjamin Swig to thunderous
applause from the audience of
600 who had gathered at the
Beverly Hilton to honor Warren.
Swig presented a scroll to War-ren
containing the signatures of
most of the men who responded
to help underwrite the Univer-sity
of Judaism's new project.
Those whose immediate re-sponse
totaled $263,000 includ-ed:
Matthew Berman, Robert
Borun, Victor Carter,Theodore
Cummings, RichardDiller.Isa-dore
Familian, Jacob Feldman,
Julius Fligelman, Samuel
Fryer, Isadore Levine, Bart
Lytton, Edward Mitchell, Lewis
E. Pennish, A. J. Schwartz-man,
Benjamin Seewack, Mendel
Silberberg, Theodore Strim -
ling, Benjamin Swig, Mark
Taper, Justin Turner, Arthur
Whizin and Allen Ziegler.
Announcements of support
came also from Henry Attias,
Martin Gang, Charles Krown,
Raymond E. Lee, Sol Lesser,
Walter Marks, EdwardMeltzer,
and Irving Stone.
The projected Earl Warren
Institute was disclosed by Dr.
Simon Greenberg, University
of Judaism president, and Julius
Fligelman, chairman of the
Continued on page 2
HELFMAN DEAN
SCHOOL FINE ARTS
With the naming of MaxHelf-man,
internationally distin-guished
conductor, composer
and teacher, as dean, the long
awaited School of the Fine Arts
of the University of Judaism
has moved closer to reality.
Full-scale launching of the
School of the
Fine Arts
will take
place at a
special gala
event, details
of which will
be announced
I shortly.
Meanwhile,
' p r eparations
are already under way for a full
school curricula, with some
WEEKLY VIDEO
SLATED KHJ-TV (9)
Preparations are now under
way for one of the most far-reaching
public relations ef-forts
to be conducted by the
University of Judaism—a
weekly half-hour television
program to be presented in co-operation
with the public ser-vice
department of KHJ-TV
Channel 9.
Tentatively titled "The Young
Look," the weekly telecasts
will consist of a series of youth
panels directed by Rabbi Jacob
Pressman, former registrar of
the university, and currently
a member of its faculty as
Continued on Page 2
Page 2 Page 3
BANQUET HONORS DR. KOHN ON HIS
80TH BIRTHDAY, LIFE ACHIEVEMENTS
More than 400 persons, in-cluding
representatives of all
sections of Los Angeles Jewry,
turned out to a gala banquet at
Sinai Temple Saturday, Oct. 7
in honor of the 80th birthday of
Dr. Jacob Kohn, dean of the
graduate school of the Univer-sity
of Judaism and Rabbi
Emeritus of Sinai Temple.
Principal speaker at the
event, which also celebrated Dr.
Kohn's 55th year in the Rabbi-nate,
was Dr. Simon Greenberg,
president of the University of
Judaism and vice-chancellor of
the Jewish Theological Semi-nary
of America.
The community-wide affair,
co-chaired by Matthew Berman
and Allen Ziegler, marked the
completion of Dr. Kohn's latest
book "The Evolution of Man as
a Revelation of God," based
upon a series of lectures he
gave at the University of Juda-ism
in connection with the
world-wide Charles Darwin
centennial observance. A high-light
of the evening was also
the unveiling of a bust of Dr.
Kohn, sculpted by Dr.Seletz.
Greetings to Dr. Kohn were
read by Rabbi Jacob Pressman,
spiritual leader of Temple Beth
Am. Among those who sent
greetings were : Dr. Louis
Finkelstein, chancellor of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America; Rabbi Edgar F. Mag-nin
of the Wilshire Blvd. Temple
Israel; Dr. Alfred Gottschalk,
dean of the Hebrew Union Coll-ege;
and Rabbi Edward T. San-drow,
president of the Rabbini-cal
Assembly of America.
Speakers during the evening
included Dr. Daniel Robinson,
professor of philosophy at the
University of Southern Califor-nia
where Dr. Kohn taught the
Philosophy of Judaism; Super-visor
Ernest E. Debs; Rabbi
Marvin Bornstein, president of
the Pacific Southwest Region of
of the Rabbinical Assembly;
Rabbi William Spigelman,
president of the Board of Rabbis
of Southern California; Dr.
David Aronson, past president
of the Rabbinical Assembly;
and Rabbi Israel Chodos, spiri-tual
leader of Sinai Temple.
UNIVERSITY EXPANDS
Continued from Page 1
dern Jewish History, Jewish
Ethics, the Bible and our Musi-cal
Heritage are being given
by such well-known figures as
Rabbi Marvin Bornstein, Dr.
Bernard Cohen, Rabbi PaulDu-bin,
Dr. Joseph Salomon, Rabbi
Jacob Pressman, Rabbi Fredric
Kazan, Rabbi Joseph Wagner,
Rabbi Aaron Wise, and Louis
Shub.
Extension courses are being
given for the Beverly Hills and
Los Angeles Chapters of
Hadasdbh, the Bay Cities Jewish
Center, Westside Jewish Com-munity
Center, Hollywood Los
Feliz Jewish Community Cen-ter,
Valley Cities Jewish Com-munity
Center, Valley Jewish
Community Center, Rodef
Sholom Temple, Temple B'nai
Emet and Whittier Jewish Com-munity
Center.
In addition, record enroll-ments
were expected in the
Graduate School, the Teachers
Institute and the Institute of
Jewish Communal Service (for
students between the 15-18).
One of the exciting highlights
of the university's projects
this year is its series of weekly
public debates on "Contrast-ing
Viewpoints on the Future of
Jewish Life in America."
WEEKLY VIDEO
Continued from Page 1
well as spiritual leader of
Temple Beth Am. RabbiPress-man
noted that while it will be
a University of Judaism pro-gram,
members of the panel
will be selected "on an inter-religious,
inter-cultural basis."
"It is intended that many
schools in the Los Angeles
area will be represented on the
panels," Rabbi Pressman said,
"such as UCLA, University of
Southern California, University
of Judaism, Los Angeles City
College, and others."
Agreement for the first ser-ies
of 13 weekly telecasts was
reached in discussions among
Hal Phillips for KHJ-TV, Saul
Rubin, the university's direc-tor
of development, and B.
Lewis Burton, of Enyart & Rose,
the university's public relations
counsel.
Subject matter will deal with
issues of vast importance to
youth in the entire community.
They will cover such subjects
as youth attitudes toward
Honesty, Prejudice, Dating,
Language, Narcotics, Music,
Faith, Parents, Driving, War,
Education and Sports.
Julius Fligelman, chairman
of the Board of Overseers,
stated, "KHJ-TV is to be con-
BEST WISHES - Dr. Jacob Kohn (center), dean of the Gradu-ate
School of the University of Judaism and Rabbi Emeritus of
Sinai Temple, is congratulated at his 80th birthday celebration
by Rabbi Israel Chodos (left), spiritual leader ofSinaiTemple,
and Dr. Simon Greenberg, president of the University of
Judaism.
Continued
from Page 1
board of overseers. Fligelman,
one of America's most distin-guished
Jewish leaders, said
that the institute "would be
devoted to the study of the re-lationship
of law to basic ethical
values, an undertaking urgently
needed in our troubled times."
The affair, one of the most
stirring events in the history
of the Los Angeles Jewish com-munity,
drew a cross-section
of the entire Los Angeles com-munity.
These included such
persons as Mordechai Shalev,
Israel Consul General to the
Western United States; Rabbi
Alfred Gottschalk, dean of
Hebrew Union College; UCLA
Chancellor Franklin Murphy;
Chancellor Rufus B. von Klein-
Smid of the University of South-ern
California; Loren Miller,
West Coast Counsel for theNa-tional
Association for the ad-vancement
of Colored People
(NAACP), such Filmland no-tables
as Maureen O'Sullivan
and Jose Ferrer, and others.
Public interest in the event
was indicated by the side press,
radio, television and newsreel
coverage. Warren's moving
speech and his tribute to the
work of the University of Juda-ism
was quoted through all
areas of public information.
gratulated for its vision and
sense of public responsibility
in making time available for
this program. We are certain
that this series will be of im-mense
value to the entire Los
Angeles area."
Agreement for the television
series came on top of a number
of University of Judaism radio
programs during the past year.
One of the most popular was
the series of news analyses
given every other Wednesday
at 7:45 p.m. over KPFK-FM
(90.7) and repeated the follow-ing
morning by Louis Shub, the
university's library director.
Shub noted that written requests
for transcripts of his talks have
come into the university after
virtually every broadcast.
SHUB ON RADIO
Continued from Page 1
day, beginning November 19th,
from 6:00 to 6:30 P.M.
Shub's broadcasts have been
appearing on alternate Wednes-days
on the station's "Open
Platform" program, where he
shared the time with other com-mentators.
However, each of
Shub's trenchant analyses were
followed by large number of
requests for transcripts. The
station's directors have now
given Shub a half-hour spot for
in-depth broadcasts. His first
broadcast on November 19th
will be on "The Status of the
Jews in the Soviet Union.
SWIM TROPHY
TO U OF J TEAM
The University of Judaism
this summer became the proud
possessor of a new honor—the
coveted national Amateur Ath-letic
Union (AAU) trophy for
winning the outdoor synchroniz-ed
swimming championship in
Union, N.J.
The team that brought the
trophy home consisted of Bar-bara
Burke andJoanneSchaack,
who beat out a field of 114 en-tries
for the senior duet champ-ionship
in the synchronized
swimming meet. Barbara and
Joanne sent the Trophy to the
University of Judaism where it
is now being exhibited in the
main entry hall.
ROSENBERG, DOLGIN MEET IN THE
FIRST PUBLIC DEBATE IN UNIVERSITY SERIES
Dr. Samuel Dinin, university
dean, congratulates Mrs. Billie
MacKellar, swimming coach,
for receiving National Amateur
Athletic Union (AAU) award won
by school swim team over 114
entries for senior duet cham-pionship
in synchronized swim-ming
meet at Union, N.J.
HELFMAN NAMED DEAN Continued from Page 1
courses now being taught at the
university.
Helfman has inauguarated a
course called "Know the
Score!", Post is teaching a
course on directing for films
and television, and Zemach's
drama and dance department
has embarked on one of the
most ambitious programs in its
history.
In addition to the regular
faculty of top-rank creative men
and women, Helfman said some
of the country's most renowned
composers, conductors, artists
and performers will be guest
lecturers. Helfman, highly es-teemed
as a "composer's com-poser,"
is referred to by auth-oritative
musicologists as the
chief influence in bridging the
gap between the ancient Hebraic
and modern themes and as in-fluncing
a great many famed
composers.
HADASSAH CLASSES
AT TEMPLE BETH AM
University of Judaism faculty
members are teaching a series
of classes on Mondays and Wed-nesdays
for the Beverly Hills
and Los Angeles chapters of
Hadassah.
Classes for both chapters are
held at Temple Beth Am, 1027
S. La Cienega Blvd. Mrs. Jack
Lasman, education chairman of
the Beverly Hills chapter, said
that classes for her group take
place on Mondays from 10:30
a.m. to 2:25 p.m.
From 10:30 a.m. to noon Mrs.
Miriam Bornstein and Mrs.
Pearl Chazanov teach Begin-ners
and Intermediate Hebrew.
Former music director of the
Brandeis Youth Foundation,
Helfman is the composer of
numerous widely used liturgical
works, including a complete
Sabbath Eve Service, first per-formed
in Carnegie Hall. He
also composed many secular
works, including "The New
Haggadah", a dramatic oratori-cal
on the theme of the Battle
of the Warsaw Ghetto.
He has written the scores
for a number of musical plays,
including "The Witch", pro-duced
by the University of
KNOW THE SCORE
"What every intelligent wo-man
should know about music"
is the essence of a special
course given every Thursday
at noon at the University of
Judaism, led by Max Helfman,
internationally distinguished
composer-conductor and highly
popular lecturer.
SINGLE
ADULT
CLASSES
A pre-registration social
evening on Oct. 5 launched the
University of Judaism's high-ly
popular courses for single
adults.
Instructor for the courses,
which are held Thursday eve-nings,
is Rabbi Fredric Ka-zan,
dynamic young spiritual
leader of Temple NerTamid,
Van Nuys. Rabbi Kazan tea-ches
the Bible in English as
well as a course in "Our
Jewish Heritage."
Two distinguished spokesmen
for conflicting points of view
debated the issue, "Can There
Be a Jewish Religion Without
Supernaturalism?" when the
first of the University of Juda-ism's
weekly series of public
debates and discussions got un-der
way Monday, Oct. 9 at 9
p.m.
Taking th e affirmative was
Rabbi Leon W. Rosenberg, one
of the most articulate exponents
of the Reconstructionist ap-proach
to Judaism. Rabbi Simon
A. Dolgin, spiritual leader of
Beth Jacob Congregation of
Beverly Hills and one of the
most distinguished Rabbis re-presenting
the Orthodox posi-
Judaism. His settings of Jewish
music from Israel have been
published in the popular collec-tion,
"Israeli Songs", with
many of them recorded in al-bums.
Helf man's "Uvashofor
Godol", from the Holy Day
liturgy, is just off the press.
Last spring, in recognition of
his musical achievements,
Helfman was elected a Life
Fellow of the International In-stitute
of Arts and Letters in
Geneva, Switzerland.
One of Helf man's most recent
works is now being published
by the Transcontinental Music
Corp. of America. This is his
composition for chorus and can-tor
with orchestral and organ
accompaniment, a work which
he conducted during the High
Holy Days at Washington
Hebrew Congregation in Wash-ington,
DoC. Helfman also cur-rently
holds a commission from
Beth Tzedec Synagogue in
Toronto, Canada, to compose
a morning service liturgy.
In announcing Helf man's ap-pointment
as dean of the School
of the Fine Arts of the Uni-versity
of Judaism, Julius
Fligelman, chairman of the
Board of Overseers, stated:
"This is another grand mile-stone
in the growth, both in
scope and influence, of theUni-versity
of Judaism. The School
of the Fine Arts, under Dean
Helf man's guidance and with
such illustrious faculty mem-bers
as Joseph Young, Ted
Post, Benjamin Zemach and
Miriam Kadushin-Alperin will
make an immense contribution
to the cultural and spiritual
life of our entire community.
The faculty of the School of the
Fine Arts can be assured of
the fullest support of all friends
of the University of Judaism."
tion, argued the negative side
of the question.
Moderator and discussion
leader was Dr. David Lieber,
dean of students for the Teach-ers
Institute of the University
of Judaism. The issue, which
is one of great moment in Jewish
communities throughout the
world, continued to be discussed
from the floor at the scheduled
discussion one week later.
Because of the wide interest
in the debate series, each de-bate
and discussion is held in
two places, on Monday nights
at the University of Judaism,
and on Tuesday nights at the
San Fernando Valley Jewish
Community Center.
Dr. Max Vorspan, in outlin-ing
the background issues of
the first debate said that the
question "rises out of the at-tempt
to maintain the integrity
of the Jewish religion and yet
harmonize It with the 20th cen-tury
civilization."
"One group," Dr. Vorspan
noted, "feels that the Jewish
religion would be dealt a death
blow if the supernatural concep-tion
of God were abandoned.
Another group feels that the
supernaturalist element must
be replaced by a "naturalist
religion." The leadership in
this latter group has been taken
by Dr. Mordecai Kaplan in his
philosophy of Reconstruction-ism."
Some of the pertinent ques-tions
which arose in the course
of this fundamental discussion
included: How shall revelation
be considered? What about
miracles? What shall be the
status of Jewish law? How shall
we consider Jewish ritual?
Rabbi Rosenberg, who took
the Reconstructionist position,
is a member of the faculty of
the University of Judaism, and
is also a practicing attorney in
Palm Springs, having been ad-mitted
to the California Bar In
September, 1960.
Rabbi Dolgin has been spiri-tual
leader of Beth Jacob since
1939 and holds the degree of
Doctor of Hebrew Letters from
the Hebrew Theological College
of the Jewish University of
America.

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Page 4 FALL SEMESTER OFFERS LARGEST, FINEST PROGRAM EVER
TOURING
THEATRE GROUP
WILL SERVE
COMMUNITY
A touring theatre group to
service the Los Angeles Jewish
community is one part "of the
exciting fa.ll program" of the
Drama and Dance Department of
the University of Judaism, it
was disclosed by Benjamin Ze-mach,
department director.
TED POST
TO TEACH
AT U OF J
Ted Post, award-winning
television and theatre director,
returned to the University of
Judaism this fall to teach
courses in Acting and Direct-ing
for Television and Films.
The courses are given every
Monday from
8:30 to 10
p.m.
Post, who
Is returning
to the Uni-v
e r s i ty of
Judaism as a
result of in-creased
in-terest
in his
courses, also teaches at UCLA.
Earlier this year, a national
board of top-ranking TV critics
voted Post the Limelight Award
for best direction in the pro-duction
of "Incident at Dragoon
Crossing" in the Rawhide ser-ies.
The Screen Directors Guild
has nominated Post as one of
the nation's five ranking direc-tors
for three years running.
Zemach, a pioneer in the
famed Habima Theatre, said
that "new talents and dis-tinguished
veterans will pool
their resources for a very rich
and varied program" in the fall
semester classes.
Classes and workshops are
going on at the University every
weekday evening with the ex-ception
of Friday. On Mondays,
from 8:30 to 10 p.m., TedPost,
award-winning film and TV
director teaches his popular
course on Acting and Directing
for Films and Television.
Other evenings find classes
in dance and drama, ranging
from beginners through inter-mediate
and advanced, taught by
such noted individuals as Saida
Gerrard, who heads her own
touring dance company, Eliza-beth
Lynn Zemach and Zemach
himself.
As for the touring theature
group, Zemach said this is be-ing
formed "to meet long-standing
requests from Jewish
community centers and many
organizations.."The group will
be composed both of students
in the Drama Workshop and
established performers from
stage, screen and television.
Dramatic moment from "The Apollo of Bellac" by Jean
Giraudox is depicted at last spring's Drama Workshop pre-sented
by the Fine Arts Department of the University of Judaism,
under the direction of Benjamin Zemach. Scene above is played
by, left to right, Michael Ferris, Robert Argo and Didi Ramati.
STRAUSS COLLECTION OF JEWISH ART ON
VIEW AT UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM
The Samuel Strauss collec-tion
of 900 years of Jewish art
objects, now on loan to the Uni-versity
of Judaism, will con-tinue
to be on exhibit for public
viewing Sundays through Fri-days
of each week, from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to
9 p.m.
Included in the priceless col-lection
are such items as a
medieval Torah pointer, a 14th
Century bronze Sabbath lamp,
a beautifully ornamented and
inscribed 18th Century mar-riage
parchment and other
objects.
Strauss, now a resident of
Los Angeles, began tracking
and collecting these items
through Europe in 1918 as a
young man in Germany. Fortun-ately,
by the time the Nazis
took over, the collection was
housed in England.
Sent to Buchenwald Concen-tration
Camp in 1938, Strauss
managed to get out in 1939 and
ultimately, to make his way to
the United States where the col-lection
followed him.
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Volume XII
UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM
ii'fut coast branch of the Jewish theological seminary of america
6525 SUNSET BOULEVARD • LOS ANGELES 28, CALIF. • HOLLYWOOD 3-1161
November, 1961
"UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM MEANS MUCH TO ME". .WARREN
United States Chief Justice Earl Warren is told of campaign
to launch University of Judaism's Earl Warren Institute of
Ethics and Human Relations, toward which group of community
leaders made instant pledge of $263,000. Left to right are
Julius Fligelman, chairman of the university's board of over-seers;
Dr. Simon Greenberg, university president; Warren;
Benjamin Swig and Victor M. Charter.
UNIVERSITY EXPANDS FACILITIES,
SERVICES, COURSES FOR 1961-62
The University of Judaism,
with the opening of fall semes-ter
classes on Oct . 4, em-barked
on the largest and most
diversified program in its 14-
year history, Lewis Pennish,
chairman of the Board of Gover-nors,
revealed.
Included in its goals are the
establishment of the Earl
SHUB
ON
RADIO
SUNDAYS
Due to the increased popu-larity
of his broadcasts, the
timespot for the K.P.F.K.-FM
(90.7) commentaries of Louis
Shub, Director of the Library
of the University of Judaism,
will take place every other Sun-
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Warren Institute in Ethics and
Human Relations, the school of
Fine Arts, television and radio
educational programs, weekly
public debates series with
nationally prominent partici-pants,
enlarged extension pro-grams
in Jewish community
centers and other institutions,
additional courses at the Uni-versity
Institute, as well as full
facilities at the university's
Graduate School and Teachers
Institute.
Distinguished scholars' will
continue to teach, with addition-al
instructors joining the
faculty. In the Fine Arts, for
example, such noted profes-sionals
as award-winning TV
director Ted Post, noted com-poser,
Max Helfman, and dis-tinguished
mosaicist Joseph L.
Young, have joined with Ben-jamin
Zemach to provide a
fully rounded program.
In the University Institute,
courses including Hebrew, Mo-
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"Your University of Judaism . . . means much to me ... I pray
that, in the years to come, its influence may be felt beyond the
borders of this city and this state . . . that it may grow to be a
great national center of ethical and moral insight ... to an un-derstanding
of inter-independence and the joint responsibility
of all men and women for the fate, the development, the prosperity
and the spiritual growth of one another as an indispensable con-dition
for true freedom and independence in the world of today."
So declared United States Chief Justice, Earl Warren, at the
historic Independence Day Dinner of the University of Judaism.
The University of Judaism is
now establishing the Earl War-ren
Institute of Ethics and Hu-man
Relations as a result of the
instantaneous response of
twenty-two community leaders
who pledged over a quarter-of-a-
million dollars at a luncheon
prior to the July 4 Dinner in
honor of the Chief Justice. The
money was originally sub-scribed
towards an Earl Warren
Chair in Law and Ethics.
Over-subscription of the
$250,000 goal was announcedby
Benjamin Swig to thunderous
applause from the audience of
600 who had gathered at the
Beverly Hilton to honor Warren.
Swig presented a scroll to War-ren
containing the signatures of
most of the men who responded
to help underwrite the Univer-sity
of Judaism's new project.
Those whose immediate re-sponse
totaled $263,000 includ-ed:
Matthew Berman, Robert
Borun, Victor Carter,Theodore
Cummings, RichardDiller.Isa-dore
Familian, Jacob Feldman,
Julius Fligelman, Samuel
Fryer, Isadore Levine, Bart
Lytton, Edward Mitchell, Lewis
E. Pennish, A. J. Schwartz-man,
Benjamin Seewack, Mendel
Silberberg, Theodore Strim -
ling, Benjamin Swig, Mark
Taper, Justin Turner, Arthur
Whizin and Allen Ziegler.
Announcements of support
came also from Henry Attias,
Martin Gang, Charles Krown,
Raymond E. Lee, Sol Lesser,
Walter Marks, EdwardMeltzer,
and Irving Stone.
The projected Earl Warren
Institute was disclosed by Dr.
Simon Greenberg, University
of Judaism president, and Julius
Fligelman, chairman of the
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HELFMAN DEAN
SCHOOL FINE ARTS
With the naming of MaxHelf-man,
internationally distin-guished
conductor, composer
and teacher, as dean, the long
awaited School of the Fine Arts
of the University of Judaism
has moved closer to reality.
Full-scale launching of the
School of the
Fine Arts
will take
place at a
special gala
event, details
of which will
be announced
I shortly.
Meanwhile,
' p r eparations
are already under way for a full
school curricula, with some
WEEKLY VIDEO
SLATED KHJ-TV (9)
Preparations are now under
way for one of the most far-reaching
public relations ef-forts
to be conducted by the
University of Judaism—a
weekly half-hour television
program to be presented in co-operation
with the public ser-vice
department of KHJ-TV
Channel 9.
Tentatively titled "The Young
Look," the weekly telecasts
will consist of a series of youth
panels directed by Rabbi Jacob
Pressman, former registrar of
the university, and currently
a member of its faculty as
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BANQUET HONORS DR. KOHN ON HIS
80TH BIRTHDAY, LIFE ACHIEVEMENTS
More than 400 persons, in-cluding
representatives of all
sections of Los Angeles Jewry,
turned out to a gala banquet at
Sinai Temple Saturday, Oct. 7
in honor of the 80th birthday of
Dr. Jacob Kohn, dean of the
graduate school of the Univer-sity
of Judaism and Rabbi
Emeritus of Sinai Temple.
Principal speaker at the
event, which also celebrated Dr.
Kohn's 55th year in the Rabbi-nate,
was Dr. Simon Greenberg,
president of the University of
Judaism and vice-chancellor of
the Jewish Theological Semi-nary
of America.
The community-wide affair,
co-chaired by Matthew Berman
and Allen Ziegler, marked the
completion of Dr. Kohn's latest
book "The Evolution of Man as
a Revelation of God," based
upon a series of lectures he
gave at the University of Juda-ism
in connection with the
world-wide Charles Darwin
centennial observance. A high-light
of the evening was also
the unveiling of a bust of Dr.
Kohn, sculpted by Dr.Seletz.
Greetings to Dr. Kohn were
read by Rabbi Jacob Pressman,
spiritual leader of Temple Beth
Am. Among those who sent
greetings were : Dr. Louis
Finkelstein, chancellor of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America; Rabbi Edgar F. Mag-nin
of the Wilshire Blvd. Temple
Israel; Dr. Alfred Gottschalk,
dean of the Hebrew Union Coll-ege;
and Rabbi Edward T. San-drow,
president of the Rabbini-cal
Assembly of America.
Speakers during the evening
included Dr. Daniel Robinson,
professor of philosophy at the
University of Southern Califor-nia
where Dr. Kohn taught the
Philosophy of Judaism; Super-visor
Ernest E. Debs; Rabbi
Marvin Bornstein, president of
the Pacific Southwest Region of
of the Rabbinical Assembly;
Rabbi William Spigelman,
president of the Board of Rabbis
of Southern California; Dr.
David Aronson, past president
of the Rabbinical Assembly;
and Rabbi Israel Chodos, spiri-tual
leader of Sinai Temple.
UNIVERSITY EXPANDS
Continued from Page 1
dern Jewish History, Jewish
Ethics, the Bible and our Musi-cal
Heritage are being given
by such well-known figures as
Rabbi Marvin Bornstein, Dr.
Bernard Cohen, Rabbi PaulDu-bin,
Dr. Joseph Salomon, Rabbi
Jacob Pressman, Rabbi Fredric
Kazan, Rabbi Joseph Wagner,
Rabbi Aaron Wise, and Louis
Shub.
Extension courses are being
given for the Beverly Hills and
Los Angeles Chapters of
Hadasdbh, the Bay Cities Jewish
Center, Westside Jewish Com-munity
Center, Hollywood Los
Feliz Jewish Community Cen-ter,
Valley Cities Jewish Com-munity
Center, Valley Jewish
Community Center, Rodef
Sholom Temple, Temple B'nai
Emet and Whittier Jewish Com-munity
Center.
In addition, record enroll-ments
were expected in the
Graduate School, the Teachers
Institute and the Institute of
Jewish Communal Service (for
students between the 15-18).
One of the exciting highlights
of the university's projects
this year is its series of weekly
public debates on "Contrast-ing
Viewpoints on the Future of
Jewish Life in America."
WEEKLY VIDEO
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well as spiritual leader of
Temple Beth Am. RabbiPress-man
noted that while it will be
a University of Judaism pro-gram,
members of the panel
will be selected "on an inter-religious,
inter-cultural basis."
"It is intended that many
schools in the Los Angeles
area will be represented on the
panels," Rabbi Pressman said,
"such as UCLA, University of
Southern California, University
of Judaism, Los Angeles City
College, and others."
Agreement for the first ser-ies
of 13 weekly telecasts was
reached in discussions among
Hal Phillips for KHJ-TV, Saul
Rubin, the university's direc-tor
of development, and B.
Lewis Burton, of Enyart & Rose,
the university's public relations
counsel.
Subject matter will deal with
issues of vast importance to
youth in the entire community.
They will cover such subjects
as youth attitudes toward
Honesty, Prejudice, Dating,
Language, Narcotics, Music,
Faith, Parents, Driving, War,
Education and Sports.
Julius Fligelman, chairman
of the Board of Overseers,
stated, "KHJ-TV is to be con-
BEST WISHES - Dr. Jacob Kohn (center), dean of the Gradu-ate
School of the University of Judaism and Rabbi Emeritus of
Sinai Temple, is congratulated at his 80th birthday celebration
by Rabbi Israel Chodos (left), spiritual leader ofSinaiTemple,
and Dr. Simon Greenberg, president of the University of
Judaism.
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from Page 1
board of overseers. Fligelman,
one of America's most distin-guished
Jewish leaders, said
that the institute "would be
devoted to the study of the re-lationship
of law to basic ethical
values, an undertaking urgently
needed in our troubled times."
The affair, one of the most
stirring events in the history
of the Los Angeles Jewish com-munity,
drew a cross-section
of the entire Los Angeles com-munity.
These included such
persons as Mordechai Shalev,
Israel Consul General to the
Western United States; Rabbi
Alfred Gottschalk, dean of
Hebrew Union College; UCLA
Chancellor Franklin Murphy;
Chancellor Rufus B. von Klein-
Smid of the University of South-ern
California; Loren Miller,
West Coast Counsel for theNa-tional
Association for the ad-vancement
of Colored People
(NAACP), such Filmland no-tables
as Maureen O'Sullivan
and Jose Ferrer, and others.
Public interest in the event
was indicated by the side press,
radio, television and newsreel
coverage. Warren's moving
speech and his tribute to the
work of the University of Juda-ism
was quoted through all
areas of public information.
gratulated for its vision and
sense of public responsibility
in making time available for
this program. We are certain
that this series will be of im-mense
value to the entire Los
Angeles area."
Agreement for the television
series came on top of a number
of University of Judaism radio
programs during the past year.
One of the most popular was
the series of news analyses
given every other Wednesday
at 7:45 p.m. over KPFK-FM
(90.7) and repeated the follow-ing
morning by Louis Shub, the
university's library director.
Shub noted that written requests
for transcripts of his talks have
come into the university after
virtually every broadcast.
SHUB ON RADIO
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day, beginning November 19th,
from 6:00 to 6:30 P.M.
Shub's broadcasts have been
appearing on alternate Wednes-days
on the station's "Open
Platform" program, where he
shared the time with other com-mentators.
However, each of
Shub's trenchant analyses were
followed by large number of
requests for transcripts. The
station's directors have now
given Shub a half-hour spot for
in-depth broadcasts. His first
broadcast on November 19th
will be on "The Status of the
Jews in the Soviet Union.
SWIM TROPHY
TO U OF J TEAM
The University of Judaism
this summer became the proud
possessor of a new honor—the
coveted national Amateur Ath-letic
Union (AAU) trophy for
winning the outdoor synchroniz-ed
swimming championship in
Union, N.J.
The team that brought the
trophy home consisted of Bar-bara
Burke andJoanneSchaack,
who beat out a field of 114 en-tries
for the senior duet champ-ionship
in the synchronized
swimming meet. Barbara and
Joanne sent the Trophy to the
University of Judaism where it
is now being exhibited in the
main entry hall.
ROSENBERG, DOLGIN MEET IN THE
FIRST PUBLIC DEBATE IN UNIVERSITY SERIES
Dr. Samuel Dinin, university
dean, congratulates Mrs. Billie
MacKellar, swimming coach,
for receiving National Amateur
Athletic Union (AAU) award won
by school swim team over 114
entries for senior duet cham-pionship
in synchronized swim-ming
meet at Union, N.J.
HELFMAN NAMED DEAN Continued from Page 1
courses now being taught at the
university.
Helfman has inauguarated a
course called "Know the
Score!", Post is teaching a
course on directing for films
and television, and Zemach's
drama and dance department
has embarked on one of the
most ambitious programs in its
history.
In addition to the regular
faculty of top-rank creative men
and women, Helfman said some
of the country's most renowned
composers, conductors, artists
and performers will be guest
lecturers. Helfman, highly es-teemed
as a "composer's com-poser,"
is referred to by auth-oritative
musicologists as the
chief influence in bridging the
gap between the ancient Hebraic
and modern themes and as in-fluncing
a great many famed
composers.
HADASSAH CLASSES
AT TEMPLE BETH AM
University of Judaism faculty
members are teaching a series
of classes on Mondays and Wed-nesdays
for the Beverly Hills
and Los Angeles chapters of
Hadassah.
Classes for both chapters are
held at Temple Beth Am, 1027
S. La Cienega Blvd. Mrs. Jack
Lasman, education chairman of
the Beverly Hills chapter, said
that classes for her group take
place on Mondays from 10:30
a.m. to 2:25 p.m.
From 10:30 a.m. to noon Mrs.
Miriam Bornstein and Mrs.
Pearl Chazanov teach Begin-ners
and Intermediate Hebrew.
Former music director of the
Brandeis Youth Foundation,
Helfman is the composer of
numerous widely used liturgical
works, including a complete
Sabbath Eve Service, first per-formed
in Carnegie Hall. He
also composed many secular
works, including "The New
Haggadah", a dramatic oratori-cal
on the theme of the Battle
of the Warsaw Ghetto.
He has written the scores
for a number of musical plays,
including "The Witch", pro-duced
by the University of
KNOW THE SCORE
"What every intelligent wo-man
should know about music"
is the essence of a special
course given every Thursday
at noon at the University of
Judaism, led by Max Helfman,
internationally distinguished
composer-conductor and highly
popular lecturer.
SINGLE
ADULT
CLASSES
A pre-registration social
evening on Oct. 5 launched the
University of Judaism's high-ly
popular courses for single
adults.
Instructor for the courses,
which are held Thursday eve-nings,
is Rabbi Fredric Ka-zan,
dynamic young spiritual
leader of Temple NerTamid,
Van Nuys. Rabbi Kazan tea-ches
the Bible in English as
well as a course in "Our
Jewish Heritage."
Two distinguished spokesmen
for conflicting points of view
debated the issue, "Can There
Be a Jewish Religion Without
Supernaturalism?" when the
first of the University of Juda-ism's
weekly series of public
debates and discussions got un-der
way Monday, Oct. 9 at 9
p.m.
Taking th e affirmative was
Rabbi Leon W. Rosenberg, one
of the most articulate exponents
of the Reconstructionist ap-proach
to Judaism. Rabbi Simon
A. Dolgin, spiritual leader of
Beth Jacob Congregation of
Beverly Hills and one of the
most distinguished Rabbis re-presenting
the Orthodox posi-
Judaism. His settings of Jewish
music from Israel have been
published in the popular collec-tion,
"Israeli Songs", with
many of them recorded in al-bums.
Helf man's "Uvashofor
Godol", from the Holy Day
liturgy, is just off the press.
Last spring, in recognition of
his musical achievements,
Helfman was elected a Life
Fellow of the International In-stitute
of Arts and Letters in
Geneva, Switzerland.
One of Helf man's most recent
works is now being published
by the Transcontinental Music
Corp. of America. This is his
composition for chorus and can-tor
with orchestral and organ
accompaniment, a work which
he conducted during the High
Holy Days at Washington
Hebrew Congregation in Wash-ington,
DoC. Helfman also cur-rently
holds a commission from
Beth Tzedec Synagogue in
Toronto, Canada, to compose
a morning service liturgy.
In announcing Helf man's ap-pointment
as dean of the School
of the Fine Arts of the Uni-versity
of Judaism, Julius
Fligelman, chairman of the
Board of Overseers, stated:
"This is another grand mile-stone
in the growth, both in
scope and influence, of theUni-versity
of Judaism. The School
of the Fine Arts, under Dean
Helf man's guidance and with
such illustrious faculty mem-bers
as Joseph Young, Ted
Post, Benjamin Zemach and
Miriam Kadushin-Alperin will
make an immense contribution
to the cultural and spiritual
life of our entire community.
The faculty of the School of the
Fine Arts can be assured of
the fullest support of all friends
of the University of Judaism."
tion, argued the negative side
of the question.
Moderator and discussion
leader was Dr. David Lieber,
dean of students for the Teach-ers
Institute of the University
of Judaism. The issue, which
is one of great moment in Jewish
communities throughout the
world, continued to be discussed
from the floor at the scheduled
discussion one week later.
Because of the wide interest
in the debate series, each de-bate
and discussion is held in
two places, on Monday nights
at the University of Judaism,
and on Tuesday nights at the
San Fernando Valley Jewish
Community Center.
Dr. Max Vorspan, in outlin-ing
the background issues of
the first debate said that the
question "rises out of the at-tempt
to maintain the integrity
of the Jewish religion and yet
harmonize It with the 20th cen-tury
civilization."
"One group," Dr. Vorspan
noted, "feels that the Jewish
religion would be dealt a death
blow if the supernatural concep-tion
of God were abandoned.
Another group feels that the
supernaturalist element must
be replaced by a "naturalist
religion." The leadership in
this latter group has been taken
by Dr. Mordecai Kaplan in his
philosophy of Reconstruction-ism."
Some of the pertinent ques-tions
which arose in the course
of this fundamental discussion
included: How shall revelation
be considered? What about
miracles? What shall be the
status of Jewish law? How shall
we consider Jewish ritual?
Rabbi Rosenberg, who took
the Reconstructionist position,
is a member of the faculty of
the University of Judaism, and
is also a practicing attorney in
Palm Springs, having been ad-mitted
to the California Bar In
September, 1960.
Rabbi Dolgin has been spiri-tual
leader of Beth Jacob since
1939 and holds the degree of
Doctor of Hebrew Letters from
the Hebrew Theological College
of the Jewish University of
America.